It is always very interesting to see how languages relate to each other. Most of the time it is easier knowing several languages from the same ‘branch’ because words and grammar is often similar. Often though, it means you generalise from one language to another and make mistakes anyway.
Experts differ on the details but most hold that there are 30 language families out there.
I enjoy checking language tree, and noticed that albanian language is missing !
Serbo-Croatian is not a language, it is a group of different languages
which are due to similarities politicians tried to unite but the
project fell through.
Srbian and Croatian language are two different languages, see documents:
http://hrv.nsk.hr/dokumenti/Sluzbeno-prihvacanje-izmjena-ISO-639-2-Registration-Authority.pdf
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_changes.php
http://ec.europa.eu/languages/policy/language-policy/official_languages_en.htm
http://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/western-4
http://www.danshort.com/ie/iesatem.htm
http://www.humanjourney.us/detail/indoEuropeMap.html
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CtQ_JSlvVbU/UolILA6Q6TI/AAAAAAAAHJc/sRoCOToZvms/s1600/Official_linguistic_map_of_europe.png
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-an2vjhpu9go/UFDP20s7dJI/AAAAAAAAD6Q/mXyx31FC2-Q/s640/Languages+Slavic.gif
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I love that language tree. It’s so thorough!